Considered by many to be his best film, Suspira is Dario Argento's surreal story of a young American Dancer who has just arrived at a German dance school.

A series of viscious murders occur -- beggining the night she arrives.
Eventually, she discovers that the

mysterious head mistress
of the school is an ancient witch,
who has been directing the slaughter.

In this film, Argento takes his obsession with the

"image of woman"
to new hieghts, graphically depiciting the brutalization of the very image he is so obsessed with. During the many
infamous close ups
of knives entering women's bodies, it is literally
Dario Argento's hand
which is wielding the blade.